FAQ's

A. *Diversity is affirming the uniqueness of and differences among persons, ideas,
values and ethnicities. A culture of diversity embraces acceptance and respect. Diversity
involves understanding ourselves and each other and moving beyond simple tolerance
to embracing and celebrating the richness of each individual. While diversity can
be about individual differences, it also encompasses institutional and systemwide
behavior patterns. * Source: Dreachslin, 1999; Anderson, Scrimshaw & Fullilove, 2003

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when (1) submission to such
conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's
employment, (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used
as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual, or (3) such conduct
has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance
or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.

Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited
to the following:

The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have
to be of the opposite sex.

The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor
in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.

The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by
the offensive conduct.

Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the
victim.

A. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. §§1681et seq.,
and its implementing regulations, 34 C.F.R. Part 106, prohibit discrimination on the
basis of sex in education programs or activities operated by recipients of Federal
financial assistance. Sexual harassment of students, which includes acts of sexual
violence, is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by Title IX. Under Title IX,
an educational institution must take immediate action to end sexual harassment that
the institution knows or reasonably should know is taking place, and must prevent
its recurrence and address its effects. In accordance with Title IX Regulations, the
college has designated Frank Rampello as Farmingdale State College’s Title IX Coordinator.